Thirteen-year-old Elvira arrives at her aunt's home in the hills of Virginia full of fantasies about the father she has never known and her mother's prejudices about life in a small town.
The force of chaos and disorder generated by the Norse god Loki pervades the life of a high school freshman in Wisconsin, whose personal problems have left her in a vulnerable state.
Laura's job playing the flute for anthropologist Mrs. Urhlander involves her in an attempt to revive an ancient batlike creature from its suspended animation.
Henry is determined to keep his unusual pet lizard despite his mother's objections and the claims of a strange lady that his pet is really a baby dragon.
Fifth grader Jonas McFee faces the temptation of becoming the Awful Terrible Powerful One when he accidentally acquires a blue crystal from outer space, giving him the power to get China on his television and make his car fly.
Sixth grader Jerry discovers two ghostly children, trapped with their mad scientist uncle in the nineteenth-century mansion that was their former home, and sets them free.
Henry is determined to keep his unusual pet lizard despite his mother's objections and the claims of a strange lady that his pet is really a baby dragon.
